oyyoyyoy – so beautifully said!
LG – I know eactly what you mean about feeling distanced from Hashem. The music sparks emotions that are very, very pervasive. You can listen to a song when you are in a depression and 40 years later hearing that song can bring back those feelings and images from those times. Music has a strong effect on us and that is one reason why music therapy works. It can bring people to bad places or good places, it can also keep running images of schmutz through your head long after you would have wished it would stop.